October 1999, I thought I had the parenting thing down pat. I could have easily written tips on what I knew then about effective parenting for every parent.
I would have been wrong.
Mary Margaret, aka Maggie, Magpie, and the Magster was easy… even if we thought she was hard. I did, in fact, take her to the emergency room once for a nasty temper tantrum. So outside the realm of her “normal” behaviors, I thought she had a tumor.
She was diagnosed with an over zealous need for a particular Barbie.